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Re: [Qemu-devel] [QAPI+QGA 3/3] QEMU Guest Agent (virtagent) v6


From: Luiz Capitulino
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [QAPI+QGA 3/3] QEMU Guest Agent (virtagent) v6
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:55:39 -0300

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:53:51 +0800
Zhi Yong Wu <address@hidden> wrote:

> HI, Michael,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Michael Roth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This is Set 3/3 of the QAPI+QGA patchsets.
> >
> > These patches apply on top of qapi-backport-set2-v5, and can also be 
> > obtained from:
> > git://repo.or.cz/qemu/mdroth.git qapi-backport-set3-v6
> >
> > (Set1+2 are a backport of some of the QAPI-related work from Anthony's
> > glib tree. The main goal is to get the basic code generation infrastructure 
> > in
> > place so that it can be used by the guest agent to implement a QMP-like 
> > guest
> > interface, and so that future work regarding the QMP conversion to QAPI can 
> > be
> > decoupled from the infrastructure bits. Set3 is the Qemu Guest Agent
> > (virtagent), rebased on the new code QAPI code generation infrastructure. 
> > This
> > is the first user of QAPI, QMP will follow.)
> > ___
> >
> > CHANGES SINCE V5:
> >  - switched to using qemu malloc/list functions where possible
> >  - removed unused proxy_path field in struct GAState
> >  - pid file now opened write-only, removed lockf() in favor of O_EXCL, 
> > added SIGINT/SIGTERM signal handlers to handle cleanup
> >  - cleaned up error-handling, switched to asserts where appropriate, 
> > removed unecessary gotos and NULL checks for qemu_free()/qobject_decref()
> >  - refactored send_payload() using helper functions
> >  - fixed improper handling of pidfile fd==0
> >  - changed guest-shutdown's "shutdown_mode" param to "mode"
> >  - switched to using kernel-generated FDs for guest-file-open rather than 
> > an autoincrement value
> >  - add maximum chunk size of guest-file-read/guest-file-write
> >  - added checks to avoid guest-file-write from writing data beyond the 
> > provided data buffer
> >  - made logging best-effort, removed handling of failures to log as errors
> >  - guest-shutdown exec errors now logged to guest syslog, clarified 
> > shutdown's asynchronous, no gauruntee nature in schema.
> >
> > CHANGES SINCE V4:
> >  - Removed timeout mechanism via worker thread/pthread_cancel due to 
> > potential memory leak. Will re-introduce guest-side timeout support in 
> > future version.
> >  - Fixed up fsfreeze code to use enums specified within the guest agent's 
> > qapi schema.
> >  - Fixed memory leak due to a log statement, and added missing cleanup 
> > functions for heap-allocated g_error objects.
> >  - Made "mode" param to guest-file-open optional, defaults to "r" 
> > (read-only)
> >
> > CHANGES SINCE V3:
> >  - Fixed error-handling issues in fsfreeze commands leading to certain 
> > mounted directories causing freeze/thaw operations to fail
> >  - Added cleanup hook to thaw filesystems on graceful guest agent exit
> >  - Removed unused enum values and added additional details to schema 
> > documentation
> >  - Fixed build issue that was missed due to deprecated files in source 
> > tree, removed unused includes
> >
> > CHANGES SINCE V2:
> >  - Rebased on new QAPI code generation framework
> >  - Dropped ability for QMP to act as a proxy for the guest agent, will be 
> > added when new QMP server is backported from Anthony's glib tree
> >  - Replaced negotiation/control events with a simple 2-way handshake 
> > implemented by a standard RPC (guest-sync)
> >  - Removed enforcement of "pristine" sessions, state is now 
> > global/persistant across multiple clients/connections
> >  - Fixed segfault in logging code
> >  - Added Jes' filesystem freeze patches
> >  - General cleanups
> >
> > CHANGES SINCE V1:
> >  - Added guest agent worker thread to execute RPCs in the guest. With this 
> > in place we have a reliable timeout mechanism for hung commands, currently 
> > set at 30 seconds.
> >  - Add framework for registering init/cleanup routines for stateful RPCs to 
> > clean up after themselves after a timeout.
> >  - Added the following RPCs: guest-file-{open,close,read,write,seek}, 
> > guest-shutdown, guest-info, and removed stubs for guest-view-file (now 
> > deprecated)
> >  - Added GUEST_AGENT_UP/GUEST_AGENT_DOWN QMP events
> >  - Switched to a TCP-style host-initiated 3-way handshake for channel 
> > negotiation, this simplifies client negotiation/interaction over the wire
> >  - Added configurable log level/log file/pid file options for guest agent
> >  - Various fixes for bugs/memory leaks and checkpatch.pl fixups
> >
> > ISSUES/TODOS:
> >  - Add unit tests for guest agent wire protocol
> >
> > OVERVIEW
> >
> > For a better overview of what these patches are meant to accomplish, please 
> > reference the RFC for virtagent:
> >
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/96096
> >
> > These patches integrate the previous virtagent guest agent work directly in 
> > QAPI/QMP to leverage it's auto-generated marshalling code. This has 
> > numerous benefits:
> >
> >  - addresses previous concerns over relying on external libraries to handle 
> > data encapsulation
> >  - reduces the need for manual unmarshalling of requests/responses, which 
> > makes adding new RPCs much safer/less error-prone, as well as cutting down 
> > on redundant code
> >  - QAPI documentation aligns completely with guest-side RPC implementation
> >  - is Just Better (TM)
> >
> > BUILD/USAGE
> >
> > build:
> >  ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu
> >  make
> >  make qemu-ga #should be built on|for target guest
> >
> > start guest:
> >  qemu \
> >  -drive file=/home/mdroth/vm/rhel6_64_base.raw,snapshot=off,if=virtio \
> >  -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:00 \
> >  -net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup \
> >  -vnc :1 -m 1024 --enable-kvm \
> >  -chardev socket,path=/tmp/qga.sock,server,nowait,id=qga \
> >  -device virtio-serial \
> >  -device virtserialport,chardev=qga,name=qga"
> >
> > use guest agent:
> >  ./qemu-ga -h
> >  ./qemu-ga -c virtio-serial -p /dev/virtio-ports/qga
> Is the above command "./qemu-ga" issued on guest teminal or hypervisor 
> teminal?

In the guest.

> 
> >
> > start/use qmp:
> > address@hidden:~$ sudo socat unix-connect:/tmp/qga.sock readline
> >  {"execute":"guest-sync", "arguments":{"id":1234}}
> >  {"return": 1234}
> >
> >  {"execute":"guest-info"}
> >  {"return": {}}
> >
> >  {"execute": "guest-info"}
> >  {"return": {"version": "1.0"}}
> >
> >  {"execute":"guest-file-open", 
> > "arguments":{"filepath":"/tmp/testqga","mode":"w+"}}
> >  {"return": 0}
> >  {"execute":"guest-file-write", 
> > "arguments":{"filehandle":0,"data_b64":"aGVsbG8gd29ybGQhCg==","count":13}} 
> > // writes "hello world!\n"
> >  {"return": {"count": 13, "eof": false}}
> >
> >  {"execute":"guest-file-open", 
> > "arguments":{"filepath":"/tmp/testqga","mode":"r"}}
> >  {"return": 1}
> >  {"execute":"guest-file-read", "arguments":{"filehandle":1,"count":1024}}
> >  {"return": {"buf": "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQhCg==", "count": 13, "eof": true}}
> >  {"execute":"guest-file-close","arguments":{"filehandle":1}}
> >  {"return": {}}
> >
> >  Makefile                        |   22 +-
> >  configure                       |    1 +
> >  qapi-schema-guest.json          |  202 +++++++++++++
> >  qemu-ga.c                       |  631 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  qerror.c                        |    4 +
> >  qerror.h                        |    3 +
> >  qga/guest-agent-command-state.c |   73 +++++
> >  qga/guest-agent-commands.c      |  522 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  qga/guest-agent-core.h          |   30 ++
> >  9 files changed, 1483 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> >




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